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THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1954.

• HOMESIDE

PICTORIAL ·

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Prince Alexander, seen here with his father, ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, tries his hand at being an air gunner after opening the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Hall. (Express)

! PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, daughter of the Duchess of Kent, leaves Liverpool Street Station after the journey with her mother from Sandringham, where they spent Christmas. The Princess was 17 on Christmas Day. (Express)

VISCOUNT CRANBOURNE, 37-year-old heir to the Marquess of Salisbury, is giving up his seat as Conservative MP for Bournemouth West because of ill health. He is seen with Lady Cranbourne at London Airport before departing for Livingstone, Rhodesia. (Express)

RED-HAIRED Moira Shearer, 27-year-old ballet and film star, rehearses again. She strained a tendon last March and was advised to rest. Now she expects to appear with the London Festival Ballet at Monte Carlo in February,

With her

is dancer John Gilpin.

(Express)

A

MOTOR cycle speed`ace' Geoff Duke smiles" proudly as his wife, Pat, shows him. their first baby --- a son. The baby weighed :81⁄41⁄2 pounds at birth (December 81) In a Southport nursing home, (Express)

GEORGE ROBEY, 84, knighted in the New Year Honours, seen" with his wife, Blanche Littler, in their Brighton seaside home, sits down to read the many congratulatory telegrams he received. The Prime Minister of Mirth is recovering from a slipped disc received while giving a charity show. (Express)

PEEPING over the banisters at the Haitian Embassy in London are the three children of the Ambassador, Mr Love Leger. They were watching guests arrive for a parly celebrating the 150th anniversary of Haiti's independence, (Express)

THREE of four English schoolgirls who reached the semi-finals of the 'Girls' Snooker Championship the only competition of its kind in Britain. They are, from left, Jean Alford, 10, of Birmingham, Vanessa Sharpe, 15, of Warwick, and Pat Ayres, 13, of Whittlesen, near Peterborough. (Express)

JACK HULBERT, film Bulldog Drummond and real- life Commandant in the Special Constabulary, was working in the basement of his home in Mayfair when he heard screams. Dashing out, he saw the woman caretaker of the next door house running out crying for help. She had been attacked by two cosh boys, but Hulbert 'could not find them. He is seen with his actress wife, Cecily Courtneidge, as she dials 999. (Express)

NANCY

Can't Blame Him

TODAY IS NANCY'S

MASK PARTY

POW

SMILES in quadruplicate are brought to you by the Good quads of NeitJeton, Wilshire, going home with some of their Christmas presents, The quads are now five years old. From left: Jennifer, Frances, Elizabeth and Bridgett, (Reuterphoto)

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